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Restaurant Race!

Myself and three peers have designed a board game, with much time discussing it dedicated to the background narrative, and overall story being played. The theme for our game we came up with is restaurant based. This idea to us is an original and exciting game of strategy. The storyline of the game is easy to understand, and not hence simple to develop a strategy to go along with this.

All four players begin the game with a seperate restaurant. For example, there will be a Thai restaurant, an Italian restaurant, Chinese and Mexican. These restaurants are not vital to the game mechanics as they generally provide backstory and meaning to the game. These restaurants are to compete with each other in regards to food quality, amount of customers, quality and loyalty of employees, and building design. Each restaurant has set strengths and weaknesses; The Italian restaurant may start with…